AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIFTH 

 EDITION. 



In bringing out the present edition of "The 

 Tobacco Problem," I desire to say that, while I 

 have taken tobacco for my text, I have included 

 all other narcotics, especially those used, at first, 

 under medical prescription and continued until the 

 servant becomes, not only a master, but a tyrant. 



I wish also to acknowledge the great kindness 

 with which my book has been received, even by 

 many devotees of the weed. I had hardly expected 

 such a degree of sufferance. It is true that, out- 

 spoken as I have been, I have set down naught in 

 malice, and have aimed to avoid unfair and unwar- 

 ranted statements. Yet I am aware that it is well- 

 nigh impossible for one with strong convictions as 

 to the use of narcotics, to write a treatise on the 

 subject which will not seem, perhaps to a large 

 class, unreasonable and extravagant, if not absurd. 

 Judging from the indications, the majority in 

 Church and State are against me. Asrain and 

 again have I been told that I injure the cause by 

 demanding too much ; that it is the abuse and not 

 the proper use of tobacco against which I should 

 direct my efforts. 



The same charges have long been rung against 



